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Obama Invites Texas Teen To White House After "Bomb" Clock Incident At School
The Grim Reefer writes: In a followup to this morning's story about the arrest of 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed for bringing a homemade clock to school that was mistaken for a bomb, President Obama has invited the teen to the White House via Twitter. The President tweeted: "Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great." The Irving Independent School District in Irving, Texas sent an email to parents about the incident asking students to: "immediately report any suspicious items and / or suspicious behavior."
From the original story, the kid vowed... note, *VOWED*... to never bring another invention to school again.
Admittedly the vow was probably made prematurely, but people who are of the sort to make vows in the first place are not the sort to break them simply because their circumstances might change.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
They would not let him call his father when the police questioned him. This is a direct violation of his and his parents rights. It's illegal to question a minor without their guardian present. I really hope everyone is telling their kids out there to refuse to answer questions in such a situation without their parents present.
The police department and school district are going to be paying his family some serious money once the lawsuits are filed. I dare say he won the lottery with this highly illegal and stupid treatment.
Yes. Have we already forgotten the Boston lightbright scare?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_bomb_scare
Especially if the kid nibbles a Pop Tart into the shape of a pistol.
Then, it's," Katey, Bar the Door!"
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
There has been, eh?
Then why has this last year had FEWER police deaths by shooting than any others for years?
Why, in fact, has Obama's presidency had fewer police deaths than his predecessors since the 1970s?
What kind of war is it, that is being done so ineffectually?
will the tsa / SS let him take the device in?
Absolutely, once they inspect it and confirm that it's not a bomb.
Electronics are allowed on planes. Explosives aren't.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
It's a good move, but I know an even better one. How about "inviting" (summoning) the teacher, the principle, the police officers and their chief of police to the White House, to ask them what the fuck they were thinking. The president giving these idiots an earful semi-publicly (not in public but it'll make the news) might give other panic-mongers and closet dictators some pause. It'll be worth it even in the extremely unlikely event that the backlash from a presidential chewing-out allows a terrorist to slip through. Fear, suspicion, surveillance and oppression aren't going to stop them anyway.
That would be an overreach - which is everything the president has been accused of doing by the GOP with very little actual evidence of such. Intervening directly in a non-federal matter like this is exactly the wrong thing to do. What he has done is neatly publicly shame the school district and the cops without intervening directly in their discipline.
110 V is not lethal - hurts like a bitch, but lethal? Nope. The AC makes it even less dangerous. Plus, if 110 V were lethal then how do you think people survive being hit by a taser where the voltage is a multiple of 10,000 Volts?
It's the resulting current, the amount of charge transferred and the length of the current which make electric appliances dangerous. But at 110 V you almost have to work hard to kill yourself.
That kid has become the "hot coffee lawsuit" of students.
The "hot coffee" eh? You mean the lawsuit everybody uses for an example of mockery towards the legal process, while themselves being substantially unaware of the actual physical injuries suffered by Stella Liebeck, that she offered to settle for far less than the jury awarded, and that evidence was brought for that McDonalds knew their coffee was served at an excessively hot temperature which they required their franchisees to use, and that hundreds of other people had also been burned by their coffee.
Is that really the example you want to use?
Whats the count of killed officers so far this year?
21?
Something like that?
Meanwhile the number of citizens killed by police so far this year is more than 500.
Again: there is no war on police.
And if there is, it is a pittance compared to the War being waged by police upon the citizenry.
(and no i dont actually believe that 'that' war exists either)
read, and become educated. you could surely use it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
There are people who don't pay taxes. For instance, I am not a Texas taxpayer. I pay no taxes to Texas. "Taxpayer" is a convenient way to denote the people who pay taxes in the context of where the term is used.
It can refer to particular jurisdictions: Nation, state, county, city, etc. It can refer to particular taxes: income, sales, property, gas, consumption, estate, capital gains, etc.
Furthermore, there are no doubt, some people who indeed pay no taxes, and the term "taxpayer" distinguishes those people from the people who do.
The fact that some people need to be corrected in their conflation of "tax payer" with "federal income tax payer" is not a good reason to legitimize this inference.
I thought that it was primarily because McDonald's served a hot beverage in a cup that easily collapses when you grab it, and the lid pops off. Now their cups are very rigid even with no lid.
No, guessing things that are easily looked up is not "thinking. You did not "think" that.
McDonalds stood their ground and refused to lower their coffee temperature to a safe level, or an industry-standard level. They really did have scalding hot coffee that was hotter than what consumers would expect, because it was way hotter than every other chain, hotter than standard commercial coffee equipment heats it to when used according to manufacturer's specifications. They simply did not care about the injuries that numerous people had suffered. Coffee doesn't even taste better when brewed super-hot, it tastes worse. But, their customers don't know or care about coffee quality, and if it was hot or not is all they really report on.
Cups were changed later, for whatever other reasons. Nobody was asking that they change their cups, or do something different than everybody else. They were asked to serve coffee that it is in the temperature range that food and drink are customarily served in the United States, and that is regarded as safe for humans.
Well, here's one from Canada. Here's another one from New York. Here's another one from a month ago, though in their defense, there were some criminal acts involved (B&E).
Here's exactly the one he's talking about. Last June.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...
It wasn't that hard to find, dude. Probably took less time that it did for you to write your reply (which somehow got modded up).
"You cannot find out which view is the right one by science in the ordinary sense." - C.S. Lewis on Intelligent Design
It would be nice if we stopped painting entire organizations, professions, states and countries every time a story like this comes out.
If the head of an organization (e.g. the Irving PD Chief) says something in their capacity as head, it's supposed to reflect on the organization. That's why they've called a press conference; are responding to interviews; etc. is to explain the position of the organization (although not necessarily the position of the members of the organization). If they give a dumb response it reflects poorly on the organization, the same way as if they give a good response it reflects well on the organization.
The rest of your post is either a straw man or you're responding to the wrong post. I didn't talk about any of those things.
The temperature of the McDonald's coffee was already below industry recommended levels. The levels that the lawyers, and what you are mistakenly calling industry levels, came up with was from them going to near by stores that sold less amounts of coffee and measuring them. The plaintiffs lawyers then claimed that was the normal temperature.
The temperature of the McDonald's coffee was from 82 to 88 C at the max according to plaintiffs lawyers, so by the time served less. The recommendations from manufacturers, coffee drinking clubs, and grinders they recommend in the 90 to 96 C range.,